 Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set...  The Study and Practice of Writing English - Pagina 155door Gerhard Richard Lomer, Margaret Ashmun - 1917 - 370 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1901 - 1110 pagina’s
...to be an author (though I wished that, too) as that I had vowed that I would learn to write. . . . Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, 1 must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
 | 1915 - 826 pagina’s
...but choose well." Let us see what an Artful Dodger did when he was on the " kinchin lay" : — • '' Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
 | 1888 - 612 pagina’s
...wished to be an author (though I wished that too) as that I had vowed that I would learn to write. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself... | |
 | 1889 - 308 pagina’s
...Stevenson has said of himself during those years when he was laying the foundation of what he is to-day : " Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...some conspicuous force, or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
 | 1910 - 724 pagina’s
...vocabulary. He tells us he had vowed he would learn to write, and says: "Whenever I read a book on a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a...rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conscious force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape... | |
 | American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf - 1909 - 398 pagina’s
...think that this practice had much to do with his simple style and use of pure English. Stevenson says: "Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 460 pagina’s
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labors at home. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 380 pagina’s
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labours at home. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pagina’s
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labours at home. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pagina’s
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labours at home. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
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